Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Girona
Fontcoberta
Girona · Catalonia · 17 km²
What rustic land in Fontcoberta allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2003. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 7 wells and boreholes in Fontcoberta. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 80–116 m. 2 springs are recorded.
Ground: 79% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% low permeability, local groundwater only.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 42 ha, in 2026.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 1.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 1.3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.1 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 83%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 590 mm a year (1971–2000), about 495 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 33.4 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 18 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Banyoles · Esponellà · Vilademuls · Cornellà del Terri · Serinyà · Porqueres
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.